Digigears

Sound art, electroacoustic and computer music, live coding, sound ecology. A series of lectures, seminars, and workshops mapping new exciting territories and approaches to music creation using digital open-source tools.

Digigears is a series of lectures and seminars for students of art schools and kids, expanding artistic education into new areas such as sound art, electroacoustic and computer music. Participants – children and adults – will learn the basics of creative programming, computer sound, and interactivity in the open-source computer language SuperCollider or in Sonic Pi softwarwe. The course touches upon various areas that can be further studied, such as sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, live coding, interactivity, acoustics, sound design, instrument design, sound recording, DSP, electronics, as well as the history of computer art and its contexts in relation to the present day.

The course builds upon the tradition of experimental and electroacoustic music, with its historical roots dating back to the foundation of the Experimental Studio of the Slovak Radio in 1965.

The series is open to non-musicians as well musician in all age groups.

In 2021, it took place at 4 Slovak schools: the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, the Faculty of Arts at TUKE, and the Conservatory in Košice.

Syllabi for the course Čísliconástroje at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica.

Syllabi for the course Čísliconástroje at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.

In 2022, it took place in Košice in a variant for kids as part of the festival Art & Tech Days 2023 using the Sonic Pi software.

In 2023, it took place in Košice at the Faculty of Arts at TUKE for art students and in Jelšava and Banská Belá in a kid-friendly version using the Sonic Pi software.